Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications,

signed at Paris on 4 May 1910
and amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 4 May 1949

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 1 March 1950, the date on which the amendments to the Agreement, set forth in the annex to the Protocol of 4 May 1949, entered into force in accordance with the second paragraph of article 5 of the Protocol.

REGISTRATION: 1 March 1950, No. 728.

TEXT: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 47, p. 159.

STATUS: Parties: 55.

Participant


Definitive signature or acceptance of the Protocol of 4 May 1949, or succession to the Agreement and the said Protocol	Ratification, accession (a), succession (d) to the Agreement as amended by the Protocol of 14 May 1949

Australia 8 Dec 1949

Austria 4 Aug 1950

Belarus 8 Sep 1998 d

Belgium 13 Oct 1952

Cambodia 30 Mar 1959 a

Canada 4 May 1949

China 4 May 1949

Cuba 2 Dec 1983

Cyprus 16 May 1963 d

Czech Republic 30 Dec 1993 d

Democratic Republic
of the Congo 31 May 1962 d

Denmark 1 Mar 1950

Egypt 16 Sep 1949

Fiji 1 Nov 1971

Finland 31 Oct 1949

France 5 May 1949

Ghana 7 Apr 1958 d

Haiti4 26 Aug 1953

Iceland 25 Oct 1950

India 28 Dec 1949

Iran (Islamic
Republic of) 30 Dec 1959

Iraq 14 Sep 1950

Ireland 28 Feb 1952

Italy 13 Nov 1952

Jamaica4 30 Jul 1964 a

Jordan4 11 May 1959 a

Lesotho 28 Nov 1975 d

Luxembourg 14 Mar 1955

Madagascar 10 Apr 1963 a

Malawi 22 Jul 1965 a

Malaysia 31 Aug 1957 d

Malta 24 Mar 1967 d

Mauritius 18 Jul 1969 d

Mexico 22 Jul 1952

Myanmar 13 May 1949 a

Netherlands 26 Sep 1950

New Zealand 14 Oct 1950

Nigeria 26 Jun 1961 d

Norway 4 May 1949

Pakistan 4 May 1951

Romania 2 Nov 1950

Russian Federation 14 May 1949

Sierra Leone 13 Mar 1962 d

Slovakia 28 May 1993 d

Solomon Islands 3 Sep 1981 d

South Africa 1 Sep 1950

Sri Lanka 14 Jul 1949

Switzerland 23 Sep 1949

Trinidad and Tobago 11 Apr 1966 d

Turkey 13 Sep 1950

United Kingdom 4 May 1949

United Republic
of Tanzania 28 Nov 1962 a

United States
of America 14 Aug 1950

Yugoslavia 29 Apr 1953

Zambia 1 Nov 1974 d

Notes:

1 See note in chapter VIII.4.

2 See note concerning signatures, ratifications, accessions, etc., on behalf of China (note 3 in chapter I.1).

3 Czechoslovakia, by virtue of its acceptance on 21 June 1951 of the Protocol of 4 May 1949 amending the Agreement of 1910, was a participant in the Agreement on that same date. See also note in chapter I.2.

4 States whose ratification of or accession to the Convention of 12 September 1923 as amended, in accordance with its article 10, ipso facto and without special notification involved concomitant and full acceptance of the Agreement of 4 May 1910 as amended.